- [Narrator] We've already talked about…formatting but you can apply to individual…characters such as kerning or underline.…Now let's get into formatting that…you apply to and entire paragraph.…I have my magazine document open…from the exercise files folder and I'm going to…zoom in on the top part of this page.…Now I'm going to double click on this heading up here…to switch to the type tool and place my cursor in it.…Now because I want to change paragraph formatting,…I'm going to go up to the control panel.…And I can see that I have the little "A" highlighted.…That means that currently this is…showing me character formatting.…

I'm going to click on the little paragraph symbol…so I can see my paragraph formatting options.…Now, technically when you switch from…one mode to the other, you're really just…switching what's on the left side of this panel.…Because if your screen in wide enough,…you actually get both paragraph and character…formatting inside the control panel.…These buttons just change which is on the left.…

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11/11/2016

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